Harpefoss

Harpefoss is a village in Sør-Fron Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located in the Gudbrandsdal valley on the north shore of the Gudbrandsdalslågen river, about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) northwest of the village of Hundorp. The 0.52-square-kilometre (130-acre) village has a population (2021) of 333 and a population density of 640 inhabitants per square kilometre (1,700/sq mi).^[1] The Dovrebanen railway line runs through the village.

Harpefoss
Village
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Coordinates: 61.57798°N 9.86117°E / 61.57798; 9.86117
Country	Norway
Region	Eastern Norway
County	Innlandet
District	Gudbrandsdalen
Municipality	Sør-Fron Municipality
Area [1]
• Total	0.52 km2 (0.20 sq mi)
Elevation [2]	252 m (827 ft)
Population  (2021)[1]
• Total	333
• Density	640/km2 (1,700/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Post Code	2647 Sør-Fron

New kindergarten (2010)

The municipal council in Sør-Fron began planning for a restructuring of the local schools in 2009. In December 2010, a decision was made which included one new kindergarten in Harpefoss. Both the deputy mayor and the chair of the living conditions committee (Nynorsk: levekårsutvalet), both from the Labour Party, said that the process had not been optimal in that all information that would be necessary for an informed decision had not been gathered.^[3]

Farm fire (2010)

On the night before Christmas 2010 a fire at a cattle barn killed between 20 and 30 cows. Temperatures close to −30 °C (−22 °F) and the closeness of farmhouse made the job of saving the animals difficult for the fire brigade.^[4]